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Someone told me they are afraid that at some point in the future of the human race, because of some type of engineered viral plagues, people will succeed in making either of these:

1 A monster virus that is unstoppable and which cannot be stopped by any natural or human counter-tactic, and, succeeds in wiping everyone out or most humans out.

2 Some form of natural or engineered virus that somehow rewrites human DNA and makes people into raging monsters like zombies or transforms them into vampire like creatures.

3 A nanotechnology based "gray goo" that is programmed to make copies of itself, and "eats" the whole world, like a technological blob.

What are your thoughts on this fear everyone? How realistic are these scenarious?

The person told me the only thing scarier than that is an artificial intelligence gone out of human control.

SpyderEdgeForever wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:14 pm

How realistic are these scenarious?

Bloke wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:54 pm

SpyderEdgeForever wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:14 pm

How realistic are these scenarious?

^^^^^^^Damm. ....LMFAO :)

SpyderEdgeForever wrote: Someone told me they are afraid that at some point in the future of the human race, because of some type of engineered viral plagues, people will succeed in making either of these:

1 A monster virus that is unstoppable and which cannot be stopped by any natural or human counter-tactic, and, succeeds in wiping everyone out or most humans out.

2 Some form of natural or engineered virus that somehow rewrites human DNA and makes people into raging monsters like zombies or transforms them into vampire like creatures.

3 A nanotechnology based "gray goo" that is programmed to make copies of itself, and "eats" the whole world, like a technological blob.

What are your thoughts on this fear everyone? How realistic are these scenarious?

The person told me the only thing scarier than that is an artificial intelligence gone out of human control.

Let's look at this Rationally!

Take this list...

DISEASE AND ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF DEATHS ANNUAL DEATHS DEATH RISK DURING ONE'S LIFETIME
Heart disease 652,486 1 in 5
Cancer 553,888 1 in 7
Stroke 150,074 1 in 24
Hospital Infections 99,000 1 in 38
Flu 59,664 1 in 63
Car accidents 44,757 1 in 84
Suicide 31,484 1 in 119
Accidental poisoning 19,456 1 in 193
MRSA (resistant bacteria) 19,000 1 in 197
Falls 17,229 1 in 218
Drowning 3,306 1 in 1,134
Bike accident 762 1 in 4,919
Air/space accident 742 1 in 5,051
Excessive cold 620 1 in 6,045
Sun/heat exposure 273 1 in 13,729
Lightning 47 1 in 79,746
Train crash 24 1 in 156,169
Fireworks 11 1 in 340,733
Shark attack 1 1 in 3,748,067

Could it happen for Zombie apocalypse. ..almost Zero!
Could the next super bug (like 1918 spanish flu) wipe out 30-60 million people in your lifetime. ..sure!

Looking at the list of odds and considering I've already personal been fighting a deadly disease. ..not worried about it in the least! That's just me though. ..Hollywood loves that stuff!

James

We're already in a zombie apocalypse. You think those are rational, thinking, educated human beings you see everywhere? At best they're NPC, non playable characters, at worst they're zombies. How many people do you meet every day that can handle truth about how things are? How many people would rob you blind and take the very food out of your kids' mouths just to have a bigger TV or nicer car?